Michelle Obama is most admired woman in America, poll finds

Thursday, December 27, 2018
A former First Lady has bested another to become the most admired woman in America.

In a Gallup poll released Thursday, First Lady Michelle Obama was voted the woman admired most by Americans this year.
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Obama has been on tour promoting her best-selling memoir -- "Becoming."

The top spot was held by Hillary Clinton for 17 years.

Gallup noted Clinton has appeared in the top 10 more than any other woman.
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Obama finished second to her three times before.

The poll, conducted every year but one since 1946, asked Americans, "in an open-ended question, to name the man and woman living anywhere in the world today whom they admire most."



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